Section 7.3. Presenting Your Slideshow

7.3. Presenting Your Slideshow

The control you have when it comes time to present your slideshow depends on how you've chosen to set up your slideshow: as full-screen, browser, or kiosk mode (see Section 7.1.1).

• Full-screen mode . Right-clicking your mouse while you're running a slideshow in full-screen mode kicks up a context menu that lets you choose how to present your slideshow, as you can see in Figure 7-10. But most folks find it quicker (and less distracting to the audience) to use the keyboard shortcuts described in Table 7-1. In addition, when you run a slideshow in full-screen mode, you see the ghosted controls shown back in Figure 7-2, and you can control your presentation with a remove control.

  Table 7-1. Key Strokes for Navigating Your Slideshow

  Table 7-1.

  To Do This	Press This
  Go forward one slide	Enter, Space, Page Down, N, click, right-arrow, down-arrow
  Back up one slide	Backspace, Page Up, P, left-arrow, up-arrow
  Jump directly to a specific slide, even if it's hidden (Section 7.1.2)	Type the slide number and then press Enter, or right-click the slide and, from the menu that appears, click the title of the slide you want to go to
  Scroll back and forth through slides quickly	Roll the wheel on your mouse
  Black out the presentation	B or . (period)
  White out the presentation	W or , (comma)
  End the slideshow	Esc or Ctrl+Break
  Hide the cursor (pointer)	= (A to show pointer again)
  Start drawing (annotating) electronically on a slide using your mouse or a graphics pen	Ctrl+P, then drag mouse (or stylus) to draw
  Stop drawing and turn pen back into arrow pointer	Ctrl+A
  Erase all the ink annotations on a slide	E
  Pause a slideshow that's running automatically	S (Press S again or + to restart it)

  
  

  

  Figure 7-10. Anything you can do with keyboard shortcuts, you can do with the context menu shown here. Trouble is, your audience has to sit through the menu selections, which may not do much for their concentration.

  
  

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  Tip: Even if you're not normally a keyboard shortcut fan, you may want to familiarize yourself with Table 7-1. That way, if you're in the middle of giving a presentation and you suddenly notice your slides racing by, for example, you'll know why (and what to do about it).

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• Browser mode . If you set up your slideshow to run in browser mode and told PowerPoint to show scroll bars (Section 7.1.1), you can use the scroll bars in the browser window to scroll from slide to slide. Right-clicking shows a different context menu (shown in Figure 7-11) than the one that appears for full-screen presentations. Finally, only a few keyboard shortcuts work for browser-mode slideshows: Go forward one slide, Back up one slide, and End the slideshow (see Table 7-1).

• Kiosk mode . If you set up your slideshow to run in kiosk mode (Section 7.1.1), no ghosted controls appear, and no right-click menu appears, either. What's more, none of the keyboard shortcuts shown in Table 7-1 work. Instead, you need to set up automatic timings (Section 7.1.4) so that the slideshow runs through your slides automatically so that folks who stop by the kiosk can navigate your slideshow.

Figure 7-11. Right-clicking a slideshow set up to run in browser mode displays a different menu than the one that appears when you right-click a slideshow set up to run in full-screen mode.